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Donald
MacKay’s Safe
Passage now published.
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Donald E.
Graves’s Dragon
Rampant now published.
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James Elliott’s
Strange
Fatality reverberates in Maine
and Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and the
Erie
Times-News. 
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Toronto Public Library
“Keep Toronto Reading Week 2010” – high praise for
Strange
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Alastair
Gillespie’s Made in
Canada reviewed in
Globe
and Mail and Literary Review of
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Visiting a fort this
summer? 
Click on the title or cover for a fuller description of
each book.
Coming this fall
A Bard of Wolfe’s Army:
James Thompson, Gentleman Volunteer,
1733-1830. The story of the sergeant of
Fraser’s Highlanders who served at the Siege of
Louisbourg, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the
Battle of Sillery, and whose anecdotes are a unique
record of soldiering in the Seven Years’ War.
Recent
titles
Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch
Fusiliers at War, 1793-1815. Donald E. Graves’s fans
will greet his new book with enthusiasm. He returns to
the Napoleonic period with his account of this famous
regiment that was in the thick of the action on three
continents and took part in the final triumph over
Napoleon at Waterloo.
Safe Passage: Travels through the
Twentieth Century. Donald MacKay recounts
his long and remarkable career from his days as a boy
sailor in the merchant marine in World War II to a long
period as foreign correspondent that took him from
Salazar’s Portugal to the 1968 student uprisings in
Paris to the Montreal of the FLQ. Two of his books have
been short-listed for the Governor General's Award.
Named by the Enemy: A History
of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Brian A. Reid
writes the history of Western Canada's senior serving
regiment, which recently celebrated its 125th
anniversary. The regiment has served in the North West
Rebellion, the South African War and both world wars. A
handsome large-format book.
Made in Canada: A Businessman’s
Adventures in Politics. Trudeau cabinet
minister Alastair Gillespie recounts his experiences in
and out of politics and vigorously defends the
controversial policies of the Trudeau governments in
which he served.
Strange Fatality: The Battle of
Stoney Creek, 1813. Veteran journalist
James Elliott’s gripping account of the American
invasion of the Niagara Peninsula that started well but
turned bad in a nighttime bayonet battle that saw two
American generals captured and cost General Henry
Dearborn his job.
For the Love of Flying:
The Story of Laurentian Air Services.
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail’s acclaimed story of the bush
flying operation that grew from a couple of biplanes in
Ottawa in the 1930s to a major frontier airline. Many
unpublished photos.
Exiles from Nowhere: The
Jews and the Canadian Elite. Alan
Mendelson’s provocative book on Canadian philosopher
George Grant and the people he admired, who included
Martin Heidegger, controversial for his Nazi sympathies,
anti-Semitic French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and
Simone Weil, who turned against her Jewish heritage.
Capital in
Flames. Robert Malcomson’s
superb account of the American attack on York (the
future Toronto) in 1813. This was Toronto’s most
traumatic day, as the British surrendered the city to
the invading force, which fell to burning and looting.
In the Midst of Alarms:
the Untold Story of Women and the War of
1812. Dianne Graves’s
book, full of wonderful anecdotes, breaks new ground in
War of 1812 studies and in the literature of women’s
experience of war.
